A Guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole Papers, 1900-1966 MS.19 MS-19

A Guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole Papers, 1900-1966 MS.19

Accession Number MS-19

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
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Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Repository

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Identification

MS.19

Title

Rufus Ivory Cole papers 1900-1966

URL:

https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/155

Quantity

1.25 Linear Feet

Quantity

Language

English

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Use

There are no restrictions.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of John Staige Davis IV.

Rufus Ivory Cole was born in Rowsburg, Ohio, on April 30, 1872. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1896 and attended the Johns Hopkins Medical School, graduating in 1899. At Hopkins he came under the influence of faculty members such as William Osler, William H. Welch, and Lewellys Barker. As a resident at Hopkins, Cole was in charge of a biological laboratory where he studied typhoid fever. He married Annie Hegeler in 1908, the same year he was appointed the Director of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the U.S. devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. The Hospital itself opened in October 1910 with 50 beds. Cole remained at the Hospital until 1937. His medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia. In retirement he wrote a two volume work titled Human History: The Seventeenth Century and the Stuart Family. Cole died on April 20, 1966.

Scope and Contents

Cole's collection contains correspondence, including several postcards from his grandsons and one with "Mrs. Rufus Cole" printed on it; reprints of journal articles, mainly ones written by Cole; and biographical memoirs and honorary programs related to Sir William Osler, William H. Welch, William Stewart Halstead, Samuel James Meltzer, Harvey Cushing, William George MacCallum, Oswald Theodore Avery, Simon Flexner, Thomas Milton Rivers, Max Broedel, and Allen O. Whipple.

General

Processed by:: Historical Collections Staff

Container List

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 001

Letter from William E. MacCallum to Rufus Ivory Cole

June 6, 1916

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 002

Letter from Frederick F. Russell to Rufus Ivory Cole

January 20, 1930

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 003

Letter from C.B. Farrar to Rufus Ivory Cole

July 16, 1959

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 004

Letter from Eric A. Linnel to Rufus Ivory Cole

August 7, 1959

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 005

Letter from Eric A. Linnel to Rufus Ivory Cole

June 6, 1961, [n.d.]

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 006

Letter from Cecile Desbarats [Librarian at the Osler Library, McGill University, Montreal, Canada]to Rufus Ivory Cole

September 3, 1959

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 007

Postal card from Rufus [Botzow] to Grandpa [Rufus Ivory Cole]

September 4, 1963

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 008

Postal card from Bill [Botzow] to Grandpa [Rufus Ivory Cole]

September 4, 1963

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 009

Postal card from Jose [s.n.] to Rufus Ivory Cole

September 4, 1963

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 010

Letter from Cecile Desbarats [Librarian at the Osler Library, McGill University, Montreal, Canada] to Rufus Ivory Cole

October 7, 1963

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 011

Letter from Rufus Ivory Cole to Cecile Desbarats [Librarian at the Osler Library, McGill University, Montreal, Canada]

November 4, 1963

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 012

Letter from Cecile Desbarats [Librarian at the Osler Library, McGill University, Montreal, Canada] to Rufus Ivory Cole

December 24, 1963

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 013

Letter from Wilburt C. Davison to Rufus Ivory Cole

November 14, 1949

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 014

The Papers of Rufus Cole 1904-1960

November 4, 1963

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 015

Selected Papers by Dr. Cole

[n.d.]

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 016

Journal reprint from American Medicine , "Pneumococcus Arthritis" by Rufus I. Cole

May 31, 1902

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 017

Journal reprint from Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin , "Blood Cultures in Pneumonia" by Rufus I. Cole

June 1902

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 018

Journal reprint from Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin , "Note on the case of Bacillus aerogenes capsulatus, in which the organism was demonstrated in the circulating blood during life" by Rufus I. Cole

October 1902

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 019

Journal reprint from Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports , "Typhoid meningitis" by Rufus I. Cole

1904

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 020

Journal reprint from Journal of Infectious Diseases , "Experimental Streptococcus Arthritis in relation to the etiology of acute articular rheumatism" by Rufus I. Cole

November 5, 1904

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 021

Journal reprint from New York Medical Journal , "Aetiology of Acute Articular Rheumatism" by Rufus I. Cole

March 17, 1906

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 022

Journal reprint from Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin , "Note on the Production of an Agglutinating Serum for Blood Platelets" by Rufus I. Cole

June-July 1907

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 023

Journal reprint from International Clinics , "Vaccine Treatment of Infectious Diseases" by Rufus I. Cole

1907

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 024

Journal reprint from Archives of Internal Medicine , "Pneumococcus Infection and Lumbar Pneumonia" by Rufus I. Cole

July 1914

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 025

Journal reprint from New York Medical Journal , "Pneumococcus Infection and Immunity" by Rufus I. Cole

January 2 and 9 1915

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 026

Journal reprint from New York State Medical Journal , "Present Status of Serum Therapy" by Rufus I. Cole

August 1917

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 027

Journal reprint from Science , "The Modern Hospital and Medical Progress" by Rufus Cole

August 6, 1926

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 028

Journal reprint from the Annals of Medical History , "Francesco Redi (1626-1697) Physician, Naturalist, Poet" by Rufus Cole; tear sheets from the Annals of Medical History , "Francesco Redi (1626-1697) Physician, Naturalist, Poet" by Rufus Cole

1926

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 029

Journal reprint from Bulletin of Johns Hopkins Hospital , "Special Meeting of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club. Presentation to the hospital of Memorial Plaque of Sir William Osler-Teacher and Student"

September, 1927

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 030

Journal reprint from Sir William Osler Memorial Volume, "Sir William Osler-Teacher and Student" by Rufus Cole

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 031

Lecture reprint from De Lamar Lectures 1927-28, "Acute Pulmonary Infections" by Rufus I. Cole

1928

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 032

Journal reprint from Science , "Progress of Medicine during the Past Twenty-five Years as Exemplified by the Harvard Society Lectures" by Rufus Cole

June 20, 1930

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 033

Journal reprint from Proceedings from the Institute of Medicine , "The Nature of Pneumonia" by Rufus Cole

November 27, 1931

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 034

Journal reprint from Transactions of the Association of American Physicians , "The President's

Address" by Rufus Cole

1931

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 035

Journal reprint from Annals of Internal Medicine , "The Treatment of Pneumonia" by Rufus Cole

July 1936

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 036

Journal reprint from The Military Surgeon , "Possibilities for Pneumonia Control as Indicated by Present Scientific Knowledge" by Rufus Cole

October 1937

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 037

Journal reprint from Science , "The Practice of Medicine" by Rufus Cole

October 7, 1938

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 038

Journal reprint from the Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society , "Medical Societies and Medical Progress" by Rufus Cole

January 1941

Mixed Materials box: 001 folder: 039

Journal reprint from the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital , "Perfectionism in Medicine" by Rufus Cole

August 1946

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 001

Journal reprint from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin , by Rufus Ivory Cole and J.C. Meakins, "The Treatment of Gonorrhoeal Arthritis by Vaccines"

June-July 1907

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 002

Journal reprint from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin , by Rufus Ivory Cole and M.R.Smirnov, "The Pro-infective ('Aggressive') Action of Normal Blood-serum"

September 1908

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 003

Journal reprint from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin , by Rufus Ivory Cole and Arthur Bond Cecil, "The Axillary Diastolic Murmur in Aortic Insufficiency"

December 1908

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 004

Journal reprint from the Transactions of the Association of American Physicians , by Rufus Ivory Cole and A.R. Dochez, "Report of Studies on Pneumonia"

1913

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 005

Journal reprint from the Transactions of the Association of American Physicians , by Rufus Ivory Cole and W.G. MacCallum, "Pneumonia at a Base Hospital"

1918

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 006

Program in honor of William H. Welch Belvedere Hotel, Baltimore, Md.

April 2, 1910

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 007

Journal reprint from the Transactions of the Association of American Physicians , "Program of the Presentation of the Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians to William H. Welch"

May 4, 1927

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 008

Milbank Memorial Fund for the Committee on the Celebration of the Eightieth Birthday of Doctor William Henry Welch, "The Eightieth Birthday of William Henry Welch"

1930-1931

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 009

Memorial Meeting in honor of William H. Welch, delivered at the University Club, Baltimore, May 22, 1934

1935

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 010

Dust Jacket, William H. Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine, by Simon Flexner and James Thomas Flexner

1954

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 011

News clipping, New York Times Book Review , July 4, 1954, "The Growing Up of American Medicine," a review of books re: William H. Welch and others

July 4, 1954

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 012

"Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences: Samuel James Meltzer, 1851-1920" by William H. Howell

1927

Mixed Materials box: 002 folder: 013

Journal Supplement to the Bulletin of Johns Hopkins Hospital , "Dr. Halsted" by George W. Heuer

February 1952

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 001

Menu, Dinner in honor of William Osler, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City

May 2, 1905

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 002

Journal Reprint from Baltimore Evening Sun , "Sir William Osler" by Lewellys F. Barker

December 1919

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 003

Journal Reprint from The Nation , "Osler" by William S. Thayer

January 24, 1920

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 004

Journal Reprint from the Canadian Journal Of Medicine and Surgery , "Osler at Johns Hopkins" by Lewellys F. Barker

March 1920

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 005

Journal from the Canadian Medical Association , "Sir William Osler Memorial Number"

July 1920

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 006

Journal Reprint from the Transactions of the Association of American Physicians , "Influence of Dr. William Osler on American Medicine" by George Martin Kober

1920

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 007

Journal Reprint from the Transactions of the Association of American Physicians , "Dr. William Osler as a Book Reviewer; his attitude towards hospitals"

[n.d.]

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 008

Journal Reprint from the Bulletin of Johns Hopkins Hospital , "Presentation of Hospital Memorial Plaque of Sir William Osler," at a special meeting of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club

January 19, 1925

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 009

Pamphlet, International Association of Medical Museums, "Memorial Number in Memoriam: Personal Reminiscences of Sir William Osler" by S. Adolphus Knopf

1926

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 010

Journal Reprint from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , "The Influence of Osler on the Practice of Medicine" by Joseph H. Pratt

January 20, 1927

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 011

Journal Reprint from the Academy of Medicine Bulletin , Silver Jubilee Number, "William Osler" by Archibald Malloch

May 1932

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 012

Journal Reprint from the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , "The

President's Address: at Osler's Shrine" by W.W. Francis

October 1937

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 013

Program, Canadian Medical Association, "The Fifth Osler Memorial Oration" by Charles D. Darfitt

1942

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 014

Journal, Archives of Internal Medicine , Sir William Osler Memorial Number

July 1949

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 015

Journal Reprint from the Proceedings of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago , "William Osler, the Humanist," by John F. Fulton

October 15, 1949

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 016

Journal Reprint from the Archives of Internal Medicine , "Excerpts from Osler, a Mosaic of Bedside Aphorisms and Writings" by William Bennett Bean

1949

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 017

Journal Reprint from the Journal of the Association American of Medical Colleges , "Osler's Influence," by Wilburt C. Davison

May 1950

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 018

Pamphlet from the National Academy of Sciences, "Biographical Memoir of Harvey Cushing, 1869-1939" by William George MacCallum

1941

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 019

Pamphlet from the National Academy of Sciences, "Biographical Memoir of William George MacCallum, 1874-1944" by W.T. Longcope

1945

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 020

Oswald T. Avery, Selections from the Bibliography of 1909-1932

[n.d.]

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 021

Journal Reprint, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, the Royal Society, "Oswald Theodore Avery 1877-1955" by R.J. Durbos

November 1956

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 022

Journal Reprint from the Journal of General Microbiology, "Obituary Notice, Oswald Theodore Avery, 1877-1955" by Colin MacLeod

December 1957

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 023

Journal Reprint from Perspectives in Biology and Medicine , "Oswald Theodore Avery and DNA" by Alvin F. Coburn

Summer 1969

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 024

Journal Reprint, Occasional Papers by the Faculty and Friends of The Rockefeller Institute , "The Johns Hopkins University and The Rockefeller Institute Allies in the March of Science," address delivered at the Rockefeller Institute April 3, 1959 by George W. Corner

1959

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 025

Journal Reprint from the Monographs of the Rockefeller Institute ,"Acute Lobar Pneumonia, Prevention of Serum Treatment" by Oswald T. Avery, H.T. Chickering, Rufus Cole and A.R. Dochez

October 16, 1917

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 026

Journal Reprint from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin ,"Amboceptors and Complement in Typhoid Sera" by Henry S. Denison

September 1908

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 027

Journal Reprint from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin ,"The Opsonins in Typhoid Immunity" by H. Klein, Leipzig

June-July 1907

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 028

Journal Reprint from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin ,"Tuberculo-opsonic Index and Treatment by Tuberculin" by P.C. Jeans and A.W. Sellands

June-July 1907

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 029

Journal Reprint from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin ,"The Method of 'Fixation of Complement' in the Diagnosis of Meningococcus and gonococcus Infection" by J.C. Meakins

June-July 1907

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 030

1.Journal Reprint from Archives of Pathology , "Obituary-- Simon Flexner, 1863-1946" by Eugene L. Opie; 2. Journal Reprint from the Royal Society, Obituary Notices of Fellows of , "Simon Flexner 1863-1946" by Peyton Rous The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, June 12, 1946

1946, 1949

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 031

Journal Reprint from National Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs , "Thomas Milton Rivers, 1888-1962" by Frank L. Horsfall, Jr.

1965

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 032

Journal Reprint from the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association , "Max Broedel, 1870-1941, Director of the First Department of Art as Applied to Medicine in the World" by Thomas S. Cullen

1945

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 033

Proceedings of the Allen O. Whipple Portrait Presentation Dinner, "In Honor of Allen O. Whipple, M.D." Hotel Plaza, New York City

September 22, 1952

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 034

Journal Reprint from Virginia Medical Monthly , "Steriod Hormones and Rheumatism" by John Staige Davis, Jr. and Harry Bartfield

July 1952

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 035

Postal Card with home address of Mrs. Rufus Cole

August 24, 1960

Mixed Materials box: 003 folder: 036

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